1.06.2013

I'll be glad

Anyway, once it became clear that clapping was dissent, clappers were
rounded up. And like all thuggish regimes this one was not too
particular about who it arrested. That included Konstantin Kaplin, who
said he was convicted of "applauding in public" despite fairly
conclusive evidence of innocence: he's only got one arm. "The judge read
out the charges [and] the police affirmed that I was applauding," said
the one-armed man. "The judge looked ashamed of herself," he said, but
she imposed the fine anyway.

A journalist was also quoted as saying that a mute woman had been
charged with "shouting antigovernment slogans," but there was no
independent confirmation of that.